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mk · 3304 days ago · link · · parent · post: Mathematicians Chase Moonshine’s Shadow: Researchers are on the trail of a mysterious connection between number theory, algebra and string theory.
Admittedly my comprehension is shallow. What I'd like to have explained to me, is whether or not this finding isn't possibly inevitable. It seems to me that string theory is a complex model of the physical world, whereas the algebra derived from symmetries of space might be fundamentally the same, and thus, their paths might be destined to cross.